2 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Terrace houses. 2 related planning applications.
2 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- pale-alcove-laurel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh South MP: Ian Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1970
- Type
- Terrace houses
- Address
- 2 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh, EH9 1LH
- OS grid reference
- NT 257 724
- Coordinates
- 55.93924, -3.19045
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
2 Sylvan Place in Edinburgh is a two-storey building with a basement, built around 1825. It is part of a symmetrical four-bay terrace that connects with Nos 4 and 5 Sylvan Place. The exterior is made of grey stugged ashlar and features a base course, a dividing band, and blocking courses, along with recessed cills and window aprons.
On the principal elevation, there are steps leading up to the entrance located at the second and third bays. The entrance consists of deep-set panelled doors set in round-arched surrounds, with slightly recessed fanlights above corniced lintels. There are single windows above the entrance and in the flanking bays.
The windows at No 2 are plate glass sash and case, while No 3 features 21-pane sash and case windows. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are shared gablehead stacks.
The interiors were not seen in 1990. The street is bordered by low coping topped with fleur-de-lys cast-iron railings at No 2, and both houses have mud scrapers.
Local climate
2 Sylvan Place, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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